总体来讲，本次阅读难度不是很大，三篇文章中有一篇是考过的旧题即Intelligence and Giftness。生物类文章Travelling Plants再次出现。本次雅思阅读涉及到的题型有判断(是非及对错)，填空，标题配对，细节特点配对和选择题。其中判断题，填空题的比重比较大。建议烤鸭们平时多练习高频题型，争取提高正确率。

Passage 1 Plastic

题材：技术工艺类；新旧： 新 题型：表格填空， 判断

文章大意：文章介绍了不同的塑料种类，不同的性质和不同的用途。

部分答案：

表格填空

判断：

大致如下
True or false or not given
Rubber 和plastic什么的受热一样？ 错
plastic约多越不容易变型和重新利用？对
加starch能够增加durable？错

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Passage 2 Intelligence and Giftedness

题材：教育心理类；新旧： 旧； 题型：段落信息配对，选择，判断

文章大意：文章讲IQ和gifted children。IQ测试是德国心理学家William Stern于1912年设计的。介绍了某位教授做的相关实验和大家的争议。教授宣称做这种测试很困难，因为有时候受比较多的因素影响。他并没有采用一般reading skill, math 以及传统方法来进行智商的测量。

测试发现：有好的culture background 的孩子成绩较好；家庭富裕的孩子比家庭比较poor的孩子要好。

教授宣称该测试只是一个参考。但这种手段成为了popular 的手段使用在包括school, recruitment in army, 就象身高、体重成为了一个人的指标。很多儿童因此而受到了不好的影响（limited by the line）。

一些专家提出了观点说其他的ability也是很重要的，而且IQ test 无法解释Einstein之类的人为什么那么有天分。

对一个人来说除了intelligence以外还有性格等各方面的因素。最后文章评判了孩子不应只以IQ为判断标准。

部分答案：

Which paragraph contains the following information

答案好象是D,F,G

4. the purpose of the text is to    

a. discuss the validity of iq test

b. 记不清

c. to demonstrate the limitation of test

d. to outline the history of the test

5. the professor Binet devise the test to      

a. find those who do not perform satisfied

b. choose the best one

c. measure the intelligence

d. establish the standard of intelligence

6. the test is designed according to    

a. math

b. age

c. reading skill

d. 记不清

7. 记不清

TFNG:

question 8-10

do the following statements agree with the information given in reading passage

it the statement agrees with the information T

if the statement contradicts with the information F

if there is no information on this NG

To use this IQ test in arm force is not the intension of the professor Binet.

The test is only intended to be used in Paris school.

The professor regards measuring intelligent test as impossible.

参考原文：

Intelligence and Giftedness

A  In 1904 the French minister of education, facing limited resources for schooling, sought a way to separate the unable from the merely lazy. alfred binet got the job of devising selection principles and his brilliant solution put a stamp on the study of intelligence and was the forerunner of intelligence tests still used today, he developed a thirty-problem test in 1905, which tapped several abilities related to intellect, such as judgment and reasoning, the test determined a given child's mental age'. the test previously established a norm for children of a given physical age. (for example, five-year-olds on average get ten items correct), therefore, a child with a mental age of five should score 10, which would mean that he or she was functioning pretty much as others of that age. the child's mental age was then compared to his physical age.

B. A large disparity in the wrong direction (e.g., a child of nine with a mental age of four) might suggest inability rather than laziness and mean he or she was earmarked for special schooling, binet, however, denied that the test was measuring intelligence, its purpose was simply diagnostic, for selection only. This message was however lost, and caused many problems and misunderstanding later.

C. Although binet's test was popular, it was a bit inconvenient to deal with a variety of physical and mental ages. so in 1912 wilhelm stern suggested simplifying this by reducing the two to a single number, he divided the mental age by the physical age, and multiplied the result by 100. an average child, irrespective of age, would score 100. a number much lower than 100 would suggest the need for help, and one much higher would suggest a child well ahead of his peer.

D．This measurement is what is now termed the IQ (for intelligence quotient) score and it has evolved to be used to show how a person, adult or child, performed in relation to others. (the term IQ was coined by Lewis m. terman, professor of psychology and education of Stanford university, in 1916. he had constructed an enormously influential revision of binet's test, called the stanford-binet test, versions of which are still given extensively.)

E. The field studying intelligence and developing tests eventually coalesced into a sub-field of psychology called psychometrics (psycho for ‘mind' and metrics for 'measurements'). the practical side of psychometrics (the development and use of tests) became widespread quite early, by 1917, when einstein published his grand theory of relativity, mass-scale testing was already in use.

F. Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare (which led to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915) provoked the United States to finally enter the First World War in the same year. The military had to build up an army very quickly; it had two million inductees to sort out. Who would become officers and who enlisted men? Psychometricians developed two intelligence tests that helped sort all these people out, at least to some extent, this was the first major use of testing to decide who lived and who died, as officers were a lot safer on the battlefield, the tests themselves were given under horrendously bad conditions, and the examiners seemed to lack commonsense, a lot of recruits simply had no idea what to do and in several sessions most inductees scored zero! the examiners also came up with the quite astounding conclusion from the testing that the average American adult's intelligence was equal to that of a thirteen-year-old!

G. Nevertheless, the ability for various authorities to classify people on scientifically justifiable premises was too convenient and significant to be dismissed lightly, so with all good astounding intentions and often over enthusiasm, society's affinity for psychological testing proliferated.

H. Back in Europe, sir cyril burt, professor of psychology at university college London from 1931 to 1950, was a prominent figure for his contribution to the field, he was a firm advocate of intelligence testing and his ideas fitted in well with English cultural ideas of elitism, a government committee in 1943 used some @ of burt's ideas in devising a rather primitive typology on children's intellectual behavior, all were tested at age eleven, the top 15 or 20 per cent went to grammar schools with good teachers and a fast pace of work to prepare for the few university places available a lot of very bright working-class children, who otherwise would never have, made it to grammar schools and universities.

I. The system for the rest was however disastrous these children attended lesser secondary or technical schools and faced the prospect of eventual education oblivion, they felt like dumb failures, having been officially branded as such be science, and their motivation to study naturally plummeted, it was not until 1974 that the public education system was finally reformed. (Nowadays it is believed that burt has fabricated a lot of his data; having an obsession that intelligence is largely genetic, he apparently made up twin studies, which supported this idea, at the same time inventing two co-workers who were supposed to have gathered the results.)

J. Intelligence testing enforced political and social prejudice, their results were used to argue that Jews ought to be kept out of the united states because they were so intelligently inferior that they would pollute the racial mix; and blacks ought not to be allowed to breed at all. And so abuse and test bias controversies continued to plaque psychometrics.

K. Measurement is fundamental to science and technology, science often advances in leaps and bounds when measurement devices improve, psychometrics has long tried to develop ways to gauge psychological qualities such as intelligence and more specific abilities, anxiety, extroversion, emotional stability, compatibility, with marriage partner, and so on. Their scores are often given enormous weight, a single IQ measurement can take on a life of its own if teachers and parents see it as definitive, it became a major issue in the 70s, when court cases were launched to stop anyone from making important decisions based on IQ test scores, the main criticism was and still is that current tests don't really measure intelligence, whether intelligence can be measured at all is still controversial, some say it cannot others say that IQ tests are psychology's greatest accomplishments

Passage 3 Travelling Plants

题材：生物类；新旧： 新； 题型：配对（植物名称和特点），填空，选择

文章大意：植物不是固定的，它的种子会到不同的地方生长，列举了很多植物，以不同的方式传播种子，成长的方式也不一样。

部分答案：

填空
　1:ants
　2: nests
　3: fruit
　4: stone
　5: cones

 6.memory

选择题：这篇文章的大意C 植物的生长是取决于环境的。